Well Organized 3rd Graders

It almost appears that the below story came from the pages of the EC Comic’s THE VAULT OF HORROR or TALES FROM THE CRYPT 55 years go.. in fact, it is very similar to two stories I know of in THE VAULT OF HORROR. It happened early this week:

A class of third graders in Waycross, Georgia, plotted to attack their teacher. The plot involved about nine boys and girls.

They brought a broken steak knife, hand cuffs, duct tape, and other items the paper said. It was well organized – some of the students were assigned to cover up the windows and some were assigned to clean up the mess afterwards.

Why did they want to do the teacher harm? She had scolded one of them for standing in a chair. It made them mad.

Their planned attack was thwarted when a pupil tipped off a teacher that a girl had brought a weapon to school.

A tattletale student saved the day!